China

EAS Workshop: The Handsome Monk and Other Stories

Date
Thu November 19th 2020, 4:30pm
Event Sponsor
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
Location
Zoom
EAS Workshop: The Handsome Monk and Other Stories
Speaker: Christopher Peacock

lease join us for the third 2020-21 year meeting of the East Asian Studies Workshop, sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

Featured at this workshop is The Handsome Monk and Other Stories (Columbia University Press, 2019), a collection of short stories by Tsering Döndrup, one of the most important authors writing in Tibetan today. Christopher Peacock, the translator of these stories into English, will share his insights and experience at the workshop. Following his talk will be commentaries from two discussants, Melissa A. Hosek (Ph.D. candidate in Modern Chinese Literature) and Professor James Gentry (Religious Studies). The floor will then be open for comments and questions from the audience.